"Blasphemy!"

"Betrayal!"

With the angry shouts of the Speaker of the Secret Guard, the Shadow Knight's body instantly disintegrated into a black mist, which spread out in all directions, quickly dissipating, and his will was directly expelled from the Dream Palace.

The 12 tall shadow-winged angels were like living creatures at this time, guarding the surroundings of the secret keepers, their white-golden eyes roaming around, and everywhere they looked, a little thin black mist quickly faded without a little residue.

After a long time, the mood of the Speaker of the Secret Keeper gradually calmed down, and the Shadowwinged Angel turned back into a lifelike statue, standing quietly in place.

A high-backed throne was outlined out of thin air, and the Speaker of the Secret Keeper sat on the throne, quietly contemplating, and compared to the empty and tall hall, it looked particularly lonely and lonely.

After a moment, he sighed and raised his hand to summon a cloud of black mist, guiding it into the form of a Shadow Knight.

When the eyes of the Shadow Knight lit up with a white-gold light, the Speaker of the Guardian on the throne condescended, and asked in a loud voice, "You, who are you?"

"The Shadow Knight can't tell the Keeper his identity, he can't ask the Keeper for his identity, that's the rule. The Shadow Knight was still half-kneeling on the ground, his head bowed respectfully.

"Rules?"

"The shadow knight is the servant of the secret keeper, and the servant is the master's eyes, ears, minions, and guards..... these are the rules. ”

"Whose rules?"

"The rules of the Hall of Dreams. ”

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper nodded, looked at the dream hall with almost real details around him, and finally his eyes fell on the nearly 100-meter-high wall bookshelf, which was full of simple and heavy books. He stretched out his hand and revealed an ancient book, the pages of which turned on their own, and as he skimmed through it, he said, "Your answer is as unnew as ever...... The Dream Hall is a spell that can be entered by wizards who use magic to build a spell model. However, unlike the Secret Keepers, I can summon a Shadow Knight, banish a Shadow Knight, and even deny access to a wizard...... I am like the masters of the Dream Palace, they are the guests, and the Shadow Knights are the servants. Is that really the case?"

With a "snap", the Secret Keeper closed the pages, letting the thick and simple book disappear into thin air, and asked the Shadow Knight, "How long have we known each other?"

"Hosts, it's been 36 years, 11 months and 30 days since we first met. The Shadow Knight replied.

"For so long...... I don't even remember and didn't pay attention to this inconsequential issue. The Secret Keeper sighed and said, "The first time I entered the Dream Palace, I was full of curiosity, I explored the mysteries here, and I found a way to summon the Shadow Knight, and then I summoned you and asked you the same question, and your answer was the same as today...... can't show the identity of reality, is the minions and eyes and ears of the secret keeper, obeys the orders of the secret keeper, and deals with things in reality...... It's the rule. ”

"I don't believe in you, I'm afraid of your power, I'm jealous of your freedom to walk in the outside world. The Speaker of the Secret Keeper stared at the Shadow Knight for a moment, and sighed leisurely, "But, I don't have time to pay attention to you....... have you seen the books on the high wall? Those are the spell models, historical secrets, and memoirs of the Shadow Priest recorded by the Speaker of the Secret Keeper for generations. Only I can look through it, I can read it to the priest who enters the temple of shadows, and then there's the record...... The important duty of the keeper is to record, record the new content, and pass it on to the next generation of keepers. ”

"By the way, the method of summoning the Shadow Knight was the first record I saw in the Hall of Shadows, and no matter which ancient book I opened, summoning the Shadow Knight was on the front page. It wasn't until I summoned you and you appeared in the Hall of Shadows that the record disappeared. ”

The Shadow Knight said respectfully, "Yes, master. The Shadow Knight is the most important for the Keeper of the Secrets. ”

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper smiled noncommittally and asked, "What do you think of the Lord of Shadows?" ”

"Radiance brings shadows, and the Lord of Shadows is the other side of the Most High Lord, and the Shadow Priest serving the King of Shadows is serving the Most High Lord. ”

The Speaker of the Secret Nodding nodded, and said, "This theological theory is of extraordinary importance to sustain the faith of the Shadow Priests, so that they do not lose themselves, and to be able to resist the temptation of the Whisperers, and to draw knowledge and strength from them...... To be precise, it is believed that the Lord of Shadows is apocryphal, in order to alleviate the guilt of ordinary shadow wizards through deception, and prevent them from giving up on themselves and falling into the control of the whisperers. The Council of Shadows is therefore more cohesive, as for the bait 'Council' wizards that the Bishop of Shadow threw to the Inquisition, those people are irrelevant, they have nothing to do with the Council of Shadows, which is in the line of the Guardian of Secrets, even if they are tortured by the executioners of the Inquisition, it is impossible to expose our Council of Shadows. ”

"Is the existence of the Lord of Shadows really just a theological theory?"

The Shadow Knight was silent for a moment, then looked up and said, "Master, you are different from the Shadow Bishop, and I am different from them. Even the Shadow Bishops, their extraordinary strength has reached the level of gold rank and above, and they have their own understanding of the world. Is the Lord of Shadows' theory true...... I don't think the Shadow Bishops of the past or the High Councilors who have entered the Dream Hall will have any doubts about this. ”

"The Most High Lord, the Lord of Shadows, and the Lord of Light are in one. The Lord of Shadows is real, he is not the Lord of Light, he is the other side of the Most High Lord, and the transcendent power I possess is the most direct proof of this. ”

The secret keeper pondered for a long time, and decided to talk from a different angle: "I don't trust you all along...... I thought I was the master of the Dream Temple, but I had to summon the Shadow Knight first. You and I met in a dream, and we kept saying that we were the Lord, but we couldn't meet in the real world, and we didn't even know who each other was. I have reason to doubt your authenticity, your origin and purpose, because you cannot reveal your identity to me......"

"It's the power of the rules of the Dream Palace. The Shadow Knight emphasized.

"....... rules. The Speaker of the Secret Keeper nodded helplessly, and continued: "Because I was suspicious of you, I basically didn't summon you, and spent a long time reading the records in the Dream Palace, trying to understand the origin of the Shadow Knight. However, I found many rules, and two of the most impressive. ”

"First, the magic models, historical secrets, and autobiographies of the Shadow Bishops and High Councilors recorded in the Hall of Dreams are only over 700 years old. Records from 700 years ago, I can't open them, but they keep hanging on the wall. Compared to the speed at which I read, those ancient books have been recorded for at least 8,000 years, if they have content...... Of course, they may have been empty in the first place, just decorations for the temple of dreams. ”

"Second, the Shadow Bishop entered the Dream Palace, and while he was there, I couldn't summon the Shadow Knight. This makes me even more suspicious that you are part of the dream world, and that it is possible that you are the whisperer who invaded the dream hall. ”

The Shadow Knight's face made of black mist drew a wry smile and said, "I can't understand many of the rules of the Dream Palace, and I can't explain them. Fortunately, the host finally believed me. ”

"It's limited trust. "Twenty-one years ago, a wizard of the Shadow Council was so powerful that it was not enough to be the deputy speaker, so he co-opted a group of wizard councillors and wanted to usurp the position of the speaker. The Shadow Bishop can't deal with them either, so I tried to order you to deal with him and his men, and you've done the job well. The Shadow Bishop is therefore convinced of my power. You've done a good job in the next few missions, proving that the Shadow Knight is the eyes and ears of the Secret Keeper. ”

"Later, the members of the Council of Shadows learned the art of Advent, and my will was able to go to the outside world, and what I saw and heard was basically in line with your report in the Dream Palace. All of this has given me some certainty that you are a real person, not a false one constructed by the whisperers. ”

"Still, I'm wary of you. Or is it because neither of us can reveal our true identities and specific locations to each other? On the other hand, I have the Council of Shadows in my hands, I have an Advent, and I am less dependent on you. Therefore, I am reluctant to summon you to do things, and I rarely communicate with you. If it weren't for the Trigovar family's methods, you wouldn't have been able to make a move this time. ”

The Keeper of the Secret put it bluntly, he controlled the Shadow Council and did not need to use the Shadow Knights, and only when he was fully engaged did he use the Shadow Knights in his overall plan. Now, the fate of the Shadow Bishop who served as the messenger is unknown, and the Council of Shadows has been decoupled from the Keeper, and he has to talk to the Shadow Knight.

"Master, I can understand your concerns...... "The Shadow Knight said.

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper waved his hand and said self-deprecatingly: "I have never regarded myself as your master, and you and I are bound by the rules. In the future, you don't need to call me master, just call me adult...... Today, I said so much that I was actually a temptation, a test of the loopholes in the rules of the Hall of Shadows. ”

"In our realm, the purpose of testing the rules is to understand the rules, and only by understanding the rules can we master the rules, and finally, become the one who makes the rules. I can't reveal my identity to you, but you can distinguish the truth of those words just now, make a judgment, and then tell me the result. ”

The Shadow Knight thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "If the Shadow Knight is trustworthy, he can meet the Shadow Bishops and High Councilors who have entered the temple and directly participate in the affairs of the Shadow Council, and if the Shadow Bishops and High Councilors are trustworthy, they can summon the Shadow Knights...... This rule of the Dream Hall is to prevent the Shadow Knights from interfering with the wizarding organization under the command of the Speaker of the Secret Keepers, and to prevent members of the Shadow Council from challenging the authority of the Speaker of the Secret Guards. This means that the Shadow Knight can collude with the Shadow Council in reality, but the decision is in the hands of the Keeper of the Mystery. ”

"That's right, that's why I never fully trusted you. Although you were involved in this project, I didn't let you know the full picture of the plan, let alone let you get in touch with the core members of the Shadow Council. Each of you has only completed part of the plan. The Speaker of the Secret Keeper said calmly, and asked with interest, "What else?"

The Shadow Knight then replied, "My lord, you are a devout follower of the Lord of Light, probably from some family of ascetics, trapped in some mountain monastery in the El Realm, isolated from the rest of the world. In addition, you don't have a secret keeper's teacher, but you trigger some kind of rule and inherit the Dream Temple, and the records left by those fallen secret keepers are your teachers. ”

There were many monasteries built on cliffs in the El, in which ascetics lived in seclusion, regardless of the world or theocracy, specializing in theology and divine arts, tempering the mind, and praying day and night. They are self-contained, and even the Cardinals of the Holy See know very much about the Alpine Monastery. These ascetics are the most core source of faith in the church, although the level of divine arts is not high, but the spiritual realm is extraordinary, the understanding and use of divine arts are meticulous, as long as the promotion ceremony is held, it is easy to promote the priesthood of the gold rank, or even legendary, depending on the capacity of the holy power pool.

Since the ascetics were mostly radical and stubborn fanatics, the aristocratic clergy were reluctant to call in the ascetics of the Alpine monasteries after the Pope fell from power.

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper had a deep expression, nodded slightly, and said, "Very good...... Our conversation bypassed the rules of the Dream Palace, and we both revealed some information to each other. You are by no means part of a mountain monastery, you can walk outside, and you know so much about the secrets of the Church, most likely from an ancient paladin family. ”

"But...... I'm not in a hurry to know where you came from. Now, it's your turn to reveal to me what you can reveal, and it's up to me to judge. Remember, it's about whether I can trust you, and trust is the only way to talk about other things. ”

The Shadow Knight asked, "My lord, can you give me a general direction?"

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper knocked on the armrest of the high-backed throne and said, "The source of the rules....... who made the rules of the Dream Palace?"

The Shadow Knight raised his head and said, "According to the lineage of the Shadow Knight, I believe that the founder of the Dream Hall is the first Pope Enoch. ”

The Speaker of the Secret Keeper was suddenly moved, stood up from his throne suddenly, and asked sharply, "Which paladin family is the Shadow Knight line......?" Are you Nakhtigarh?"

The Shadow Knight said solemnly, "No....... we are the eighth family outside of the Seven Paladins, nameless and nameless, dedicated to serving the shadow side of the Supreme Lord. ”